The internet sucks at suggesting fun games to play with two people in a car.

Maybe you guys have some favorites?

L & I are embarking on a 9-hour journey tomorrow from Athens to Mascoutah, IL to spend some holiday time with her family. She likes to play games in the car, and I've been tasked with providing some ideas.

One thing we could do is make lists: Our top three favorite _________. Fill my brain up with possibilities, please! I've got some serious road-trip-gamer's block right now.

I like the game "shut the hell up and listen to this mix CD I made for the trip"

sorry I am not helpful

Mascoutah is like 3 hours from Quincy. I'm driving to Quincy tonight but by the time you hit Mascoutah tomorrow I'll be in Kansas. Back in Quincy on Friday & Saturday but I doubt there'll be an opportunity for beers.

oh hey beers, that might be a fun car game

no wait that is a Bad Idea, sorry

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I read The Hitchhiking Game in a sophomore year Lit/Comp class, and the ensuing gender war actually resulted in some people dropping the class. A book was thrown at one point. People were standing and shouting. It was nuts.

my friend and I drove to tampa at like 1 am a few weeks ago and we played the "would you rather" game with really gross and violent rathers. You're allowed to compromise, make changes and so forth. Well what if the gang who was raping me was all Jude Law?

my step dad plays "who would win" but it's with actors and fictional creatures. The actors are vs. other actors. Though it would be neat to try Keifer Sutherland vs. Crocodile With Wings. The winner on the actors side is always Kiefer Sutherland.

Always a fan of "Name more of this than the other person can". Basically you take a category and go back and forth naming something that falls into that category. If someone repeats or is unable to think of one more, then it goes back to the other player who must name one more thing to "win" the game. Loser picks the next category.

examples: "Tom Hank's Movie Roles", or "Countries in Africa", or "United States Presidents", or "Books by Steven King".

Best to choose a category which has a large amount of answers to take up more time.

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my friend and I drove to tampa at like 1 am a few weeks ago and we played the "would you rather" game with really gross and violent rathers. You're allowed to compromise, make changes and so forth. Well what if the gang who was raping me was all Jude Law?

I'm a big fan of "would you rather". My friend Paul is really good at coming up with scenarios.

I also like marry/bang/kill. Normally, you name 3 people (celebrities, Tom Hanks characters, dead presidents, whatever) and choose which one you'd marry, which one you'd bang, and which one you'd kill, but I like to take it to a whole different level and use things like reuben/philly/bacon cheeseburger, or couch/recliner/porch swing, or Dodgers beach blanket/Alfonso Soriano's contract/the weird hill in center field at Minute Maid Park.

I like books on tape as well as music. Otherwise, my friend and I played the 30-second song game a lot, where you pick a topic and sing about it. Annnnnd the poem game, where you get given 5 words and have to write a poem containing them, but that doesn't work for someone who's driving.

Another friend and I also played a game where you pick a theme (e.g. food) and make terrible puns about it ("that's condiMENTAL!") back and forth for 20 minutes while our choir groans around us on the bus. But that's an acquired taste.

Oh, I just thought of another game. It's an acting game or something I think called "secret word." you and one other person pick a word, text it to each other, and you have to race to get the rest of the car to say the secret word without saying it yourself. It is fun when it is a game no one else knows they are playing but you can also plan it and have teams. I'm actually still trying to make my two friends say "pipe" from two days ago.

Other games specific to where I am likely to be traveling:Count the Signs for Waffle House on 95Count the Dead Birds on the Chesapeake Bay BridgeCount the Dead Birds on the Bonner BridgeWhat the Fuck Does This Virginia Driver's Vanity Plate MeanPoint Out All the Places Where We Pulled Over So I Could Barf When I Was a Kid

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Name that tune. Can use radio or put ipod on random. Miles (or seconds) to object: spot object in distance, guess what odometer or cell phone/ipod timer will read as you pass it.I'm thinking of a word. One party guesses, the other party says higher/lower (in the alphabet). Total Recall. Snap a photo out of the window. Each person tries to recall/guess everything that will appear in the photo. Rigamarole: one otter. two tiny tunes. three thirsty thrumming throats. four fiercely fighting familiar fantasies. etcAssociation. Buzz (sevens). Start counting at one and say buzz for every seven, and every multiple of seven. 17 and 21 get one buzz each. 70 gets two. 77 gets three. Rhyming Jeopardy. One person thinks of a word, then states they're thinking of a word that rhymes with X. (My word is cat. I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with bat.) The other person guesses by describing their guess. (Is it a rodent?) The yes/no must include the guessed rhyming word (No, it's not a rat.) If I can't come up with 'rat', I lose, and it's your turn.